Drone confirms your worst fear: SoCal beach is full of sharks

If your idea of a nightmare is the opening scene of the movie 'Jaws', you're going to want to stop reading now.

Lifeguards at Surfside Beach in Orange County have been testing a new means of keeping the popular beach safe — flying a drone over the waters. On Monday the drone, which flies 100 feet in the air and scans a wide swath of the beach, spotted a dozen sharks.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, indeed.

Lifeguards haven't closed the beach yet, opting instead to post warning signs. It should go without saying that people are a far greater threat to sharks than sharks are to people, and sharks often peacefully coexist with human water invaders.

"If we get bigger sharks or we get sharks that are aggressive, we are going to close the water. But right now, we have only seen sharks that are 5 to 6-feet long, non-aggressive, acting like normal sharks, feeding on bottom fish, doing exactly what we would expect them to do," Seal Beach lifeguard Chief Joe Bailey said.

Bailey also spotted a juvenile great white shark in waist-high water, but luckily it was during a time when no one was in the water.

According to National Geographic, "you have a 1 in 63 chance of dying from the flu and a 1 in 3,700,000 chance of being killed by a shark."